ESA Announces Space Elevator Sci-Fi Contest

Posted by michael on Thursday December 16, 2004 @05:50AM from the beanstalk dept.

Neil Halelamien writes "The European Space Agency has announced the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction competition. For the competition, the ESA's Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction for Space Applications (ITSF) project is accepting short stories and artwork which incorporates or depicts a space elevator in some way. The competition is open to members of all nations, with a submission deadline of February 25, 2005. Winners and runners-up in each category will receive $600 and $300 respectively, with winning entries appearing in an upcoming book on the space elevator."

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Rainbow Mars by tsa · 2004-12-16 06:49 · Score: 2, Interesting

Everyone who is interested in space elevators may also be interested in the book Rainbow Mars by Larry Niven, which features a (sort of) organic space elevator; a tree that grows from a planet far into space. Nice story.

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